NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education

I'm a teacher and I read this book years ago, shortly after it first came out. At that time I was working in a school system that required either joining the NEA or paying almost the exact same amount of money to it and not having a say in it. For two years, I mindlessly paid my dues and was a member. Then, I decided to read the material I had been given by the NEA. It was a 75-page, very fine print 8 1/2 x 11" book(let). I read every word of it and was amazed at some of the thing the NEA was supporting. Then I heard about this book on a radio program and when I read it, I saw that this man was pointing out the very things I had already seen. The NEA is not a harmless group that merely wants the best for the education of our children. The changes that are happening in education are part of an overall agenda and that agenda is NOT to produce the most intelligent and well-educated children we can. If you are an educator today, please read this book! Don't give your money mindlessly to this organization. You expect your students to research their facts and you need to do the same yourself. You owe it to yourself and the children you teach. Joining the NEA is NOT the best way to educate our youth! This author has excellent documentation for what he says. It is well worth your time to read. Even though it was originally published in the 80's, the NEA has only gotten worse. (Did you know the NEA was sued a couple of years ago for misappropriation of funds?) Once you read this, you'll wonder how intelligent people like teachers have been duped into thinking this is only a pro-education group. (Did you know teachers are now referred to as "agents of change"? After reading this book, you'll know why.)

For me, the most valuable part of the book is the history of the philosophy of American "public" education. Sam traces the origins of american government education from Bismark's Germany through Hegelian philosophical influences, Horace Mann, the Know Nothing movement, and Deweyian pragmatism and the pervasive behaviorism that began with Pavlov in the early 1900s.If after you read this you don't pick up your children and run from you local government kiddie kennel, then you're already dead.

This book was an incredible eye opener for me. I as a public school student knew that my fellow students and I were being indoctrinated into the anti-capitolist, socialist views of educators. I made a comment about socialism in class and I wash shocked to hear what my teacher said "Socialism isn't bad, it's great". The comment confirmed my worst fears and everything said in Blumenfeld's book, socialist are using the public schools to turn America into a socialist nation. Read the book, it will change your view of education forever.For those wondering I am a sophomore in high school.

Blumenfeld condemns the NEA using their own words. One has to read this book to really understand why education is in the terrible shape it is in this country.

Samuel Blumenfeld indicts the Progressive education cabal by using their very own words to expose their leftist/radical agenda. You will never look at Dewey and his disciples in the National Education Association the same way again. Blumenfeld is a meticulous researcher who blows the cover on the socialist policy-makers who control American public education today. He is to education what Malachi Martin is to the Catholic Church: a brilliant, erudite iconoclast who despises Marxist deception. Alarming, unsettling, provocative, and hard-hitting. Every patriotic American should read this book.